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And dogs. Stupid humans make their regular dogs stupid too. (Some dogs aren't blessed with much of that clever wild brain to begin with, I know. I like chocolate labs anyway.)

I worked in the specialty AIDS ward in St. Stephen's hospital in London (before any meds were available).

AIDS has a devil's banquet of particular cruelties as the diseases it kills with are many, some are particularly horrific, and they overlap so that the comorbidity of all this horrible shit happening at once is itself an overriding cruelty.

Sometimes it goes on forever, and also I watched buff fit vibrant people burst out in painful cancerous lesions and waste away to a stick figure in a month.

AIDS is a concentration camp not a prison, unless you have the best meds and care.

Drupal scales well and is very extensible with features that allow complicated permissions systems, etc. I have built some complicated courseware with it, and big document archives, etc. It has a skilled developer community. I wouldn't use it for small inexpensive sites, but it's top tier and free/liberated.

Joomla's code a decade ago was so inefficient and clunky to work with I could never recommend it, my main interaction with it was troubleshooting and helping folks escape it. Maybe it's improved.

Hey watch it with that 'never' commitment eh!

A long time ago business class Brother printers weren't always that easy or reliable, and the HP's were rock solid and straightforward. If Brother enshittifies, the rankings will change.

You cannot call slapping on an external storage device "upgrading storage", WTF are you on about? Are you just completely unaware of what a ridiculous solution that is to a problem that the OEM intentionally created?

Oh I am very aware of how annoying and hostile it is to users: I repair computers, including macs.

I didn't write upgrade, don't twist arguments or it's bad faith. Adding TB4 drives to a workstation is just normal in the industry, don't take it out on me. In that situation it's no big deal, and yes all the gear is expensive to an amateur.

We are getting off the original point that someone trying to break into an industry has to hew to the existing standards, and those standards often use FCP ProRes files so you better give in. While your tone was contemptuous and dismissive, you seemed a little curious about why that might be. I have tried to address that.

Suggesting that a young professional trying to break into a decent paying job in the media production industry would use a chromebook or any version of linux for production is a non-starter.

If a Framework workstation (I had no idea they made one, thought it was all laptops) runs something other than Linux or Windows, I am curious what it could be.

Still, if you had to provide support for a wide variety of everyday users, I suspect your opinion on 'user-friendliness' would shift. Even Mint is problematic for most users as soon as they are required to step out of basic admin production. Windows is worse, unless you fully bend over for MS.

Now I have to get back to ungluing a shitty battery out of a shitty macbook., hidden by sleazy little pentalobe screws.

[Side note that "botched" means incompetent or clumsily made, i.e. intentionally broken.]

I thought we were talking about media production but your goalposts are over there in the playground.

Botched means I asked for more industry standard production files and you gave me something else, because you don't understand ROI in industry. Equipment is cheap compared to time. Just use the tools the job requires.

I used to teach guerilla filmmaking back in the day of "desktop video is the next big thing" so I see where you're coming from, even if you hide your ignorance about the work behind ideals. Knock yourself out learning to edit with a cheap gaming rig and the free version of Resolve, make cool stuff and upload, start a wedding video business.

But get work in a large production as a contractor? The tools are cheap compared to time and amortized quickly in taxes. Buy the tool the job requires. Skills should be platform agnostic.

Thunderbolt4 is perfectly usable in high bandwidth situations. WTF are you on about. Do you even compute?

Framework = Windows (consumer hostile in extremis) or Linux, fine for me and thee but user hostile for most.

Maybe. You think I'm getting ProRes RAW files from your Win11/Premiere rig? Fired.

The Amygdaloids, you mean: the 30% or so that seems to be a human constant of fearful, somewhat self-centred, and comfortably authoritarian. Combined with the sociopaths, you get fascist behaviour.

Homo Narratus is particularly susceptible to stories that direct behaviour. Not just propaganda, but ideology. We need to justify our participation in our own oppression.

It's both genetics and a ploy.

I hate apple with an intimacy and intensity you likely don't, but the alternatives are either equally indefensible or difficult for average users and thus also anti-consumer.

Just never buy an iMac, get a Mini or Studio with adequate RAM (you can add storage later) and a nice 4k monitor and you then get what you are paying for with some reliability.

I note that you only denigrate, and are not supporting a viable alternative.

Let me introduce you to a little thing called media production workflow, where there are over 500 different file formats in active use, and getting it right forms the basis of most links in a chain hundreds of links long.

You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don't find another subcontractor immediately.

Good comment, but in case anyone is wondering,

"gall", as in gall bladder, as in 'strong stomach'. Gauls did get stereotyped by romans as complainers I guess.

I think the suggestion is that if they leave the content available, they can still write it off.

I worked for a woman this morning who had photos of Maggie all over her hallway, and I mentioned it of course. Smith worked with my client in 1970's in Stratford.

She went on about what a kind and thoughtful person she was to her colleagues and everyone in general. Very genuine, I was glad to hear, even after winning an Oscar.

Man to man, you know we can do better than Pierre "never had a real job" Poillievre!

To be fair, the entire issue of blackface and its sordid history is much more nasty and nuanced than this thread would suggest.

If you want to find out more, look into the racist nature of minstrel shows, and their role in maintaining hierarchy.

I wonder if it's because 28 Days Later was shot on a handful of Canon XL-1's, which was a breakthrough as they were one of the first prosumer cameras that could pull off a film like that.

Kind of a nod and a wink at the heritage of the story to shoot on consumer hardware.

Fascism is merely one form of authoritarianism, which is very much on a spectrum. Don't try to make people stupid by breaking basic political categorization.

Cool, and if anyone wanted to dive into the cuttlefish rabbit hole, er, den, 10/10 would recommend any reading or documentary about them. Astonishing visual communication and camouflage, curiosity, problem solving, and more weird biology.

NOT FISH despite the name. Cephalopods are molluscs like snails! They are pretty smart and can have somewhat elaborate mating routines, and most species are somewhat careful about sperm sac delivery AFAIK. Lonely prisoners are not good behaviour models.